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The art of Europe encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile rock, and cave painting art, and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age.
Written histories of European art often begin with the art of the Ancient Middle East, and the Ancient Aegean civilisations, dating from the 3rd millennium BC. Parallel with these significant cultures, art of one form or another existed all over Europe, wherever there were people, leaving signs such as carvings, decorated artifacts and huge standing stones. However a consistent pattern of artistic development within Europe becomes clear only with the art of Ancient Greece, adopted and transformed by Rome and carried; with the Empire, across much of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
The influence of the art of the Classical period waxed and waned throughout the next two thousand years, seeming to slip into a distant memory in parts of the Medieval period, to re-emerge in the Renaissance, suffer a period of what some early art historians viewed as "decay" during the Baroque period, to reappear in a refined form in Neo-Classicism and to be reborn in Post-Modernism.
Art history is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style. This includes the "major" arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture as well as the "minor" arts of ceramics, furniture, and other decorative objects.
As a term, art history (also history of art) encompasses several methods of studying the visual arts; in common usage referring to works of art and architecture. Aspects of the discipline overlap. As the art historian Ernst Gombrich once observed, "the field of art history [is] much like Caesar's Gaul, divided in three parts inhabited by three different, though not necessarily hostile tribes: (i) the connoisseurs, (ii) the critics, and (iii) the academic art historians".
As a discipline, art history is distinguished from art criticism, which is concerned with establishing a relative artistic value upon individual works with respect to others of comparable style, or sanctioning an entire style or movement; and art theory or "philosophy of art", which is concerned with the fundamental nature of art. One branch of this area of study is aesthetics, which includes investigating the enigma of the sublime and determining the essence of beauty. Technically, art history is not these things, because the art historian uses historical method to answer the questions: How did the artist come to create the work?, Who were the patrons?, Who were his or her teachers?, Who was the audience?, Who were his or her disciples?, What historical forces shaped the artist's oeuvre, and How did he or she and the creation, in turn, affect the course of artistic, political, and social events? It is, however, questionable whether many questions of this kind can be answered satisfactorily without also considering basic questions about the nature of art. Unfortunately the current disciplinary gap between art history and the philosophy of art (aesthetics) often hinders this inquiry.
Volume 1: LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS The Medieval period highlighted the works of Giotto, Van Eyck and others who forged a link with the religious world, discovered perspective, and ushered in the Renaissance.
Volume 3: THE AGE OF SPLENDOR The Baroque Era began with great works from Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Bernini, coupled with new limits of realism and expression.
Volume 2: A NEW DREAM The Renaissance was the golden age which inspired the works of Michaelangelo, Raphael, DaVinci in Italy and the secular works of Holbein and others in the North.
Volume 4: REASON AND ENLIGHTENMENT The Rococco period saw emphasis on pastoral themes and strong classical influences which emerged in the work of Hogarth, Gainsborough, Chardin, and David.
by Philip Scott Johnson Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma Nominated as Most Creative Video 2nd Annual YouTube Awards For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm Created using Abrosoft Fantamorph High resolution version: http://www.vimeo.com/1456037 Contact information: philipscottjohnson@gmail.com "Women In Art"
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See the example at night
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When we demuse ourselves
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‘Cause they’re building houses and alarms in Tokyo
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‘Cause they’re building houses and alarms in Tokyo
‘Cause they’re building houses and alarms in Tokyo
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